How can something be new and also be award-winning? This reviewer wasn't sure if that wasn't the first test in Think Postitive!, as a happy animated character introduced this apparently award-winning new program. That's not to ...

Garden problems generally centre on issues such as weeds, un-mown lawns and perhaps, if you're well off, leaves on your swimming pool. They don't, as a rule, involve invasions of the dead; although they do if ...

Board games are usually played with a board - the clue is in the name, really - but playing them on a computer or console can often put a worthy spin on traditional favourites. And they ...

First impressions, in the case of Battlestations: Pacific, prove a little deceptive. Once you've worked your way through some lengthy, glossy presentation, and once you've chosen which of the two campaigns you want to tackle - ...

If ever Specsavers was on the lookout for a companion product to help drum up a bit of business, it could do an awful lot worse than look in the direction of Mystery In London: On ...

They don't call this kind of thing 'shovelware' for nothing. With a retail price of £30, and a box championing the presence of 30 'classic' games, Namco is adhering to a tried and tested formula here. ...

We're now up to the sixth SingStar release on the PlayStation 3 (following SingStar volumes one, two and three, plus the dedicated Queen and Abba discs), and it's fair to say that we all pretty much ...

Whoever you've decided to throw your weight behind in the console wars, few would argue that if prizes were handed out for originality, quirkiness and often the downright bizarre, Nintendo would take the lot. Rhythm ...

Computer games generally have pretty underwear-gripping premises. To rule the world via nuclear domination, annihilate invading alien races with oversized plasma weapons, or build a billionaire business empire. That sort of thing. In the Magic Toy ...

Have you noticed the recent outpouring of games (mostly on the DS) that are designed to tax and improve our little grey cells? Presumably because we're spending too much time as telly couch potatoes or 24/7 ...

Classic games vary from the intricate to the simple. There's the likes of Dungeons & Dragons, with its reliance on vast wells of imagination and highly complex rules (not to mention the live action version, Wazzocks ...

Talk casual games and you inevitably have to head towards PopCap Games. Just the firm's website offers a good number of titles that can eat up a month's worth of lunchtimes. Chief among its hits have ...

The spooky manor of Ravenhearst is home to creaky doors, flickering light bulbs and that most chilling and scary bird, Naomi Campbell... sorry, we meant the raven. You know, the one that does a lot of ...

In a game industry flooded with carbon copy strategy, role-play and first-person shooter games, it always comes as a breath of fresh air when some imaginative brains come up with something much more original. Although the ...

If we were one of the star actors of CSI: New York, we're not sure we'd be too flattered by the butt-ugly representations that appear in the opening sequence for the game of the hit TV ...

Brain Trainers have been one of the biggest selling genres on Nintendo's platforms, and are undoubtedly a fun way to give the old grey cells a bit of a polish. Do they actually work? Well, not ...

According to AC/DC, first there was light, then there was sound, then there was drums (sic), then there was guitar... And then rock and roll was born. It skips a couple of bits of the evolutionary ...

What's in your brain? It runs mostly on oil and water, rather like a car. But with no petrol. Or metal. Or windows. And you don't sit in it. Although in Brainpipe, you kind of do ...

Guitar Hero was the original plastic guitar strumming music game. Rock Band then came along, taking that concept and adding drums and a microphone into the mix, allowing friends to form their own full bands. The ...

There's an inherent brilliance and simplicity to Wii Music that for some time is hard to resist. After all, in stark contrast to the likes of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, there's no heavy investment in ...